The Making of "La Gran Familia Mexicana": Eugenics, Gender, and Sexuality in Mexico
The Making of "La Gran Familia Mexicana": Eugenics, Gender, and Sexuality in Mexico
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《墨西哥大家庭》的制作：墨西哥的优生学、性别和性行为
DOI：
10.1111/johs.12308
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发表时间：
2021
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0.5
通讯作者：
Sánchez-Rivera R
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作者：
Sánchez-Rivera R
本文探讨了墨西哥优生学对整个革命后时期与家庭相关的不同计划的影响。它涉及墨西哥精英如何看待家庭，以及这些讨论如何界定谁应该成为“墨西哥大家庭”的一部分或存在于“墨西哥大家庭”的旗帜下。我讨论优生学家关于母性、幼稚文化、阶级和不同预防性健康措施的辩论如何旨在阻止“不受欢迎的人”——或者在他们看来不应该成为“墨西哥大家庭”一部分的人。我认为科学被用作实施不同优生计划的工具，这些计划将使混血和“理性混合”的思想融入现代墨西哥国家。我认为，根据墨西哥优生学会（MSE）的说法，民族家庭的创建是通过对个体家庭的监管以及自我管理和理性繁殖的优生教义的接受来实现的。因此，“墨西哥大家庭”将成为墨西哥个人和更广泛的国家动态的组织原则。
This article examines the impact of Mexican eugenics on different programs relating to the family throughout the post‐Revolutionary period. It deals with how Mexican elites thought about the family and how these discussions delimited who should be part of or exist under the banner of “la gran familia mexicana”. I discuss how eugenicists' debates regarding motherhood, puericulture, class, and different preventive health measures were intended to keep “undesirables”—or the people who, in their view, should not be part of “la gran familia mexicana”—at bay. I argue that science was used as a tool for implementing different eugenic plans that would make ideas of mestizaje and “rational mixing” into the modern Mexican nation. I argue that according to the Mexican Society of Eugenics (MSE), it was through the regulation of individual families and the acceptance of eugenic precept of self‐management and rational reproduction that the creation of the national family was to be crafted. Thus, the “gran familia mexicana” would become the organizing principle for both the individual and broader national dynamics in Mexico.